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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Review of Donna LeCourt’s Social Mediations: Writing for Digital Public Spheres
Continue reading →: Review of Donna LeCourt’s Social Mediations: Writing for Digital Public SpheresTymoteusz Chajdas Donna LeCourt. Social Mediations: Writing for Digital Public Spheres. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. In an era increasingly defined by pervasive misinformation, escalating political polarization, and the ever-growing dominance of tech platforms in shaping public discourse, Donna LeCourt’s Social Mediations: Writing for Digital Public Spheres offers a profoundly…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
A Study of Tutors’ Pedagogical Talk in Read/Plan-Ahead Writing Center Consultations
Continue reading →: A Study of Tutors’ Pedagogical Talk in Read/Plan-Ahead Writing Center ConsultationsDiana Lin Awad Scrocco Abstract Historically, scholars differentiated writing center tutors’ nondirective, facilitative talk from writing teachers’ authoritative, directive discourse. Recent research suggests writing tutors and instructors should instead select forms of pedagogical talk based on writers’ individual needs. One understudied tutoring model represents this blending of writing center and…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Embodying Class Participation: An Intersectional Self-Study of How and Why Students Participate
Continue reading →: Embodying Class Participation: An Intersectional Self-Study of How and Why Students ParticipateMathew Gomes Abstract Motivated by needs for intersectional, student-involved class participation research, I report the results of an exploratory study of student participation disaggregated by race, gender, disability, and their intersections. Surveying students (n=42) about their identities, attempts to participate, and motivations for participation, I found White students attempted on-time…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Is Teaching Writing Different Now? An Analysis of First-Year Writing Grades in Different Modalities and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Continue reading →: Is Teaching Writing Different Now? An Analysis of First-Year Writing Grades in Different Modalities and During the COVID-19 PandemicDaniel Libertz, Constantin Schreiber, and Kamal Belmihoub Abstract This study responds to claims in the popular press and within everyday academic life about the effects of modality and the COVID-19 pandemic on student learning. We analyzed grade data from a semester (Fall 2021) in which the institution we studied had…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Mice in the House, a Sense of Dread, and Magic: Accounting for Teachers’ Visceral Rhetorics in AI Literacy Narratives
Continue reading →: Mice in the House, a Sense of Dread, and Magic: Accounting for Teachers’ Visceral Rhetorics in AI Literacy NarrativesLillian Campbell and Elisabeth L. Miller Abstract Drawing on Larson’s formulation of visceral rhetorics as “thick, material, bone-deep, gut-felt sensations,” we argue for attending to writing instructors’ visceral rhetorics in AI Literacy Narratives, where teachers narrate their histories with writing and reading as former students, as writing teachers, and now…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Horizontal Mentorship and Dialogic Reflection: Methods for Supporting Early-Career Faculty Transitions to New English Programs
Continue reading →: Horizontal Mentorship and Dialogic Reflection: Methods for Supporting Early-Career Faculty Transitions to New English ProgramsAntonio Byrd and Virginia M. Schwarz Abstract This article describes two early career tenure-track faculty’s approach to horizontal mentorship and dialogic reflection to adapt their teaching to the needs of Research II graduate writing programs. Collaborative reflection about how their teaching evolved helped the authors not only unlearn their original…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
What’s in a Word? Using Etymology to Contest Neoliberal Discourses of Failure
Continue reading →: What’s in a Word? Using Etymology to Contest Neoliberal Discourses of FailureSara Biggs Chaney Abstract This essay proposes etymology as a mode of critical investigation and rhetorical invention that can be employed to historicize and critique neoliberal discourses of failure in composition programs and classrooms. Founding my argument on an etymological analysis of recent psychology research about college students with ADHD,…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Faculty Emotional Response to Plagiarism: Inviting a Stance of Not-Yetness as a Way to Humanize the Classroom
Continue reading →: Faculty Emotional Response to Plagiarism: Inviting a Stance of Not-Yetness as a Way to Humanize the ClassroomAndrea McCrary, Stephanie Conner, Jennifer Daniel, and Jennifer Gray Abstract This project investigates faculty feelings about student plagiarism and teaching citation practices based on data from multiple institutions. Our group surveyed 136 faculty at multiple institutions and conducted 16 focused follow-up interviews to discover the emotions of instructors upon finding…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Whose Time Is It Anyway? Writing, Labor, and the Illusion of Efficiency
Continue reading →: Whose Time Is It Anyway? Writing, Labor, and the Illusion of EfficiencyJason Tham Abstract This article, adapted from a keynote address at the 2025 Computers and Writing Conference in Athens, Georgia, examines how generative AI tools transform writing pedagogy by creating an “illusion of efficiency” that masks deeper concerns around labor, equity, and embodied cognition. Drawing on histories and rhetorics of…
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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Tutor Training Matters: Writing Center Administrators’ Self-Sponsorship into the Field and Its Impact on Tutor Training Interventions
Continue reading →: Tutor Training Matters: Writing Center Administrators’ Self-Sponsorship into the Field and Its Impact on Tutor Training InterventionsThis piece details our study’s most applicable findings about how a range of WCAs think about and structure tutor training. Among our research participants, there was a consensus that what has previously worked in training tutors needs to be routinely updated.
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